Related Posts Widget For Blogger with CSS

Related Posts Widget for blogger is what everybody is looking for, In Most of the sites we will find only javascript code and HTML tag for related posts widget. After adding the code to your blog , you can see just a list of related posts without any arrows or style css. So i wanted to embed both in order to make the widget links looks beautiful.

Thats it , now look at the page , it will look like this



: search this line <p><data:post.body/></p> . (<p><data:post.body/></p> Then_the_related_posts_script_here) and paste the following script the code just below:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
   <div class='similiar'>
    <!-- *****************http://hoctro.blogspot.com*****Jan,2007****************** -->
    <!-- *****************Related Articles by Labels - Take Two****************** -->

    <!--
     Modified by JackBook.Com to make it easier to use. 
    1. Now, users don't need to change anything to use this widget. just copy and paste, and done!
    2. The current article will also be listed, now it's no more.
    -->

    <div class='widget-content'>
    <h3>Related Posts by Categories</h3>
    <div id='data2007'/><br/><br/>
     <div id='hoctro'>
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     </div>
     <script type='text/javascript'>

     var homeUrl3 = &quot;<data:blog.homepageUrl/>&quot;;
     var maxNumberOfPostsPerLabel = 4;
     var maxNumberOfLabels = 10;

     maxNumberOfPostsPerLabel = 100;
     maxNumberOfLabels = 3;

     function listEntries10(json) {
       var ul = document.createElement(&#39;ul&#39;);
       var maxPosts = (json.feed.entry.length &lt;= maxNumberOfPostsPerLabel) ? 
                      json.feed.entry.length : maxNumberOfPostsPerLabel;
       for (var i = 0; i &lt; maxPosts; i++) {
         var entry = json.feed.entry[i];
         var alturl;

         for (var k = 0; k &lt; entry.link.length; k++) {
           if (entry.link[k].rel == &#39;alternate&#39;) {
             alturl = entry.link[k].href;
             break;
           }
         }
         var li = document.createElement(&#39;li&#39;);
         var a = document.createElement(&#39;a&#39;);
         a.href = alturl;

      if(a.href!=location.href) {
       var txt = document.createTextNode(entry.title.$t); 
       a.appendChild(txt);
       li.appendChild(a);
       ul.appendChild(li); 
      }
       }
       for (var l = 0; l &lt; json.feed.link.length; l++) {
         if (json.feed.link[l].rel == &#39;alternate&#39;) {
           var raw = json.feed.link[l].href;
           var label = raw.substr(homeUrl3.length+13);
           var k;
           for (k=0; k&lt;20; k++) label = label.replace(&quot;%20&quot;, &quot; &quot;);
           var txt = document.createTextNode(label);
           var h = document.createElement(&#39;b&#39;);
           h.appendChild(txt);
           var div1 = document.createElement(&#39;div&#39;);
            div1.appendChild(h);
           div1.appendChild(ul);
           document.getElementById(&#39;data2007&#39;).appendChild(div1);
         }
       }
     }
     function search10(query, label) {

     var script = document.createElement(&#39;script&#39;);
     script.setAttribute(&#39;src&#39;, query + &#39;feeds/posts/default/-/&#39;
      + label +
     &#39;?alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=listEntries10&#39;);
     script.setAttribute(&#39;type&#39;, &#39;text/javascript&#39;);
     document.documentElement.firstChild.appendChild(script);
     }

     var labelArray = new Array();
     var numLabel = 0;

     <b:loop values='data:posts' var='post'>
       <b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>
         textLabel = &quot;<data:label.name/>&quot;;

         var test = 0;
         for (var i = 0; i &lt; labelArray.length; i++)
         if (labelArray[i] == textLabel) test = 1;
         if (test == 0) { 
            labelArray.push(textLabel);
            var maxLabels = (labelArray.length &lt;= maxNumberOfLabels) ? 
                   labelArray.length : maxNumberOfLabels;
            if (numLabel &lt; maxLabels) {
               search10(homeUrl3, textLabel);
               numLabel++;
            }
         }
       </b:loop>
     </b:loop>
     </script>
    </div>

   </div>
  </b:if>

Save your template. refresh your blog, and Done.

That’s all. Enjoy!

Note; Related Posts is a list of all posts related to some article based on the labels. And because this uses Javascript, if you want to create a list of posts related by content, it might be pretty hard to do currently.